Opening Ceremony of the Action Month on occupational safety and health in 2020
Mr.Nguyen Dinh Khang – Member of the Party Central Committee, President of VGCL – speaks at the launching ceremony.
On the morning of May 8, 2020, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor cooperated with the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to hold the opening ceremony of the Action Month on occupational safety and health (OSH) in 2020 with the motto “Promoting the improvement of working conditions and control of OSH risks at the workplace”.
The action month on OSH will take place from May 1st–31st 2020 nationwide. This is a very important annual activity in raising the awareness and compliance with OSH laws. At the same time, it will promote the implementation of solutions to improve working conditions, reduce the pollution of working environments, limit occupational accidents and diseases, take care of workers’ health.
This year, the opening ceremony of the OSH Action Month took place amid the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, improving working conditions and strengthening risk prevention measures are very important in order to create a safe and sustainable working environment. Thereby contributing to improving labor productivityand workers income.
Speaking at the ceremony, Chairman of Vietnam General Confederation of Labor,Mr.Nguyen Dinh Khang proposed that all levels of trade unions and union members, workers nationwide promote their creative spirit to effectively carry out 4 core tasks as follow.
Firstly, widely implementing the 2020 Workers’ Month with the topics of “High productivity – Occupational safety – High income”, “Maintaining employment – Occupational safety – Stable income” with the topic of OSH Action Monthto union members and workers.
Secondly, focus on drastically implementing solutions to ensure safety for union members and workers at the workplace, and to stabilize employment and income, to improve labor productivity; prepare the conditions to exert all effortsand accelerate when Covid-19 pandemic ends.
Thirdly, focus on taking care of and protecting workers facing difficulties due to job loss, job discontinuation or job termination, especially pregnant female workers who raising children, workers who are ill or sick, etc. Through specific and practical activities.
Fourthly, promote the dissemination, propaganda, encouraging union members, workers to stabilize their minds and cooperate with enterprises to overcome difficulties; continue to uphold the virtue of the Vietnamese working class,repelling the pandemic as a whole country.
Prior to that, in order to implement activities in the OSH Action Month, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor issued plans and guidelines for implementing activities in response to the 2020 OSH Action Month at all union level. The core tasks set out in the 2020 OSH Action Month organized by Trade Union are:
– Diversify the forms of propaganda and dissemination of policies, laws and knowledge of OSH; employ education to raise the awareness and responsibilities of employers and employees in implementing OSH regulations, especially COVID-19 disease prevention and control.
– Promotemovements to improve the effectiveness of mass movements in OSH activities such as: “Green – Clean – Beautiful, Ensuring OSH”, “Workers for the Green – Clean – Nice city “, movements of creative labor,technology improvement, working conditions improvements for workers …; organize a green Sunday “For occupational safety and health – for the health of workers”, thus promoting the participation of employers and workers in ensuring OSH.
– Establishing, consolidating and formulating working regulations of the OSH network. Promote the development of quantity, improve the quality and performance of the OSH practitioners network in production facilities.
– Promoting the cooperation with MOLISA, Public Health and Social Insurance sectors … in disseminating, training and prevention of COVID-19; cooperating in investigating and supervising the compliance of law, consultancy and policy discussions related to workers enterprises; taking care of and guaranteeing the rights of union members and employees.
– Providing online consultancy on legal policies of labor safety for workers.
– Taking care of workers’ mid-shift meals, improving health during the pandemic season through negotiation of the Collective Labor Agreement concerningthe quality of shift meals and occupational safety and health, to ensure long-term health protection for workers.
– Organizing visits and encouragement for victims of occupational accidents and diseases and their families, sick laborers, people in difficult circumstances, those affected by COVID-19 pandemic.
– Timely organize, mobilize, encourage and reward union members and workerscoming up with initiatives and solutions to improve technologies and working conditions, increase labor productivity and ensure OSH.
– Commending and rewarding groups and individuals with outstanding achievements in the movement “Green – Clean – Beautiful, ensuring OSH”, enterprises doing well in operation of OSH,facilitating staff safety and hygiene at the facility. Praising and rewarding groups and individuals with unexpected outstanding achievements, good models and practices, bringing about effectiveness in the prevention and control of COVID-19 pandemic.
Nguyen Thu Hang
Labor Relations Department, VGCL
(Source: Vnniosh.vn)
